Illustrative image (Source: AFP)– Vietnamese and Chinese Party officials, scholars and experts
gathered at an online symposium on June 25 to discuss the relationship of the
Communist Party of Vietnam and the Communist Party of China in the past,
present and future.
Speaking
at the event, Nguyen Ho Hai, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Ho Chi
Minh City, stressed that the Vietnam-China friendship, founded by the
countries’ leaders Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong, is a shared treasure of both
sides and needs to be further promoted.
He
noted that the Parties and States of Vietnam and China have given each other
support during the reform and opening and socialism building in each country
for peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world.
HCM
City Party organisation, administration and people treasure the valuable
support from international friends, foreign partners, including those from
China, to the city’s efforts to become a socio-economic, trade,
science-technology hub of the country and an attractive destination of the
region and the world over, the official said.
He
held that the symposium creates a good chance for experts and scholars to
review the traditional friendship, comprehensive strategic cooperative
partnership between the two countries and draw lessons for each side, thus
further promoting the traditional friendship between the two Parties as well as
the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries.
For
his part, Liu Xiaoming, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region, said that the shared path to socialism has brought
Vietnam and China closer together to become “good neighbours, good friends, good
comrades, and good partners”.
Vietnam
and China are among the few socialist countries having Communist Party as the
ruling party, which is the choice of not only the history but also the peoples
of both sides to represent their interest and their pursuit of happiness.
It
is for the interest of both sides to preserve the vitality of the two Parties,
which is a motivation for the completion of socio-economic development and the
building of strong countries with rich peoples, he said.
The
official noted that over the years, under the leadership of the two Parties and
efforts of peoples of both sides, China and Vietnam have recorded considerable
achievements, while promoting and deepening bilateral relations, especially in
economy, trade, investment and COVID-19 prevention and control.
The
function is expected to contribute to the growth of the communist movement in
the world as well as the acceleration of partnership between political parties
of both countries and the reinforcement of traditional ties between China and
Vietnam, he added.
Addressing
the event, Chinese Consul-General in HCM City Wu Jun said that the history and
reality have proved that the persistent pursuit of socialism and the safeguard
of security of the political systems in both countries are the most fundamental
joint strategic interest of both sides. The staunch leadership of the Communist
Party and the superiority of the socialism system are the basic factors for
both countries to overcome all the difficulties, he affirmed.
The
official stressed that the Party and Government of China are willing to work
with Vietnam to promote the traditional friendship, comprehensive partnership
between the two countries in the new era, thus building a community with shared
destiny and creating new motivation for the growth of bilateral ties as well as
the socialism building in both countries.
Participants
at the event highlighted the theory of communism, and focused on the relations
between the Communist Party of Vietnam and Communist Party of China in the past
and the future, among others./.